MOOBE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
gomestic drawing. 
ONE WEEK AT OUR HOUSE. 
BY JUNK SUNSHINE. 
Thebe are six in our family—Father, 
Mother, Habby, Nell, Mabel and I. The 
first work day of the week we all rose early, 1 
as it was washing day. As soon as we had 11 
all finally risen a visitor came, Mrs. Mono at, | th 
who hail been visiting away from the village tw 
for a week. She was a poor, lone body, «« 
who makes all the families in the village a M 
visit once a week. It, happened that she | 
came to us this day and brought a very | th 
large washing with her. Mabel got the i il l 
breakfast—baked potatoes, fried ham and > l > 
eggs coffee and toast—for mother, who did hi 
not feel at all well. While Mabet, was y 
getting breakfast Habuy put the water ta 
ovor to heat, and Monday and I sorted the 
clothes to he washed. After breakfast of 
Mabf.l offered to do up the breakfast things ai 
while Monday, Nell and I all washed, ef 
rinsed and hung up. Mable came in from gi 
hanging up, her face covered with blushes, tl 
“ I do wish that our house was not so b 
close to the street; every one that goes by t,i 
can look right in. I had on this old buu- U 
bonnet, my dress all pinned up so I looked out ]i 
half expecting to see the President going by, l’< 
but no one but ARTHUR Jackson fast disap ■ 
pearing round a comer.” Soon we heaid ^ 
the clock strike twelve, “ What shall we 
get for dinner ?- T did not think it more than ^ 
ten,” said I, and to our surprise dinner was fi 
announced by mother. She had nsed the 
dining-room stove to cook. We got through , 
all of it just before tea time, tired enough, | ( 
We slept very sound that night, and would c 
like to have slept very late next morning; 
but Tuesday came and told ua that she 
had come to spend the day, and brought a 1 
very largo ironing to be done. It was very 
warm and we put on the coolest drosses wo s 
had. It took us nearly nil day to do the c 
ironing, and when at last we did get done we 1 
were glad to rest, and Mabel and 1 said we 
should not change our dresses ; but Nell 
put on a delicate white muslin, with violet3 
in it, and violet ribbon in her hair, and took a 1 
book under one of the trees and had a deli¬ 
cious time. Mabel and I got a lunch for the 1 
family and then hud a game of croquet under 
the trees in the front yard in the twilight. 
Next morning, Wednesday said there are 
floors to sweep and mop, windows to wash, 
carpets to dust and furniture also. The 
carpets were Harry’s work, which he found 
quite hard until sorao other boys come to 
help him, Nell washed the windows until 
they shone like crystals. I swept, and mopped 
and Mabel got dinner, a sort of lunch, and 
we got Harry to tack down the carpet for 
us _so we got through before night,, but 
very tired. “ I hope we shall not have so 
much to do to-morrow,” said I, ‘‘for I 
think we need rest,” and so it proved. 
Thursday was very impatient for us to 
awaken so she could tell us the news. The 
whole family was invited to a picnic half a 
mile distant, iu a beautiful grove. All went 
but Father and I. I statd ar, home to rest, he 
to work in the counting room. They had a 
nice time and I a glorious one, having some 
company. 
Friday, cloudy ‘‘old maid,” came too 
soon, with Tots of mending to be done. Had 
company to tea. Nell got supper. Here is 
the programme Biscuit, butter, cold ham, 
pickles, white cake, fruitcake, tea, etc 
SaTURuay came with plenty of work. 
Pies, bread, cake and crullers to be made ; 
and beans to be baked. It was a very busy 
day and we were all glad when Sunday 
dawned clear. Not a wagon wits heard in 
the street, nor a scund of anything rough. 
We all went to church. T§xt—“ The Lord is 
my shepherd; 1 shall not want.” This 
ended one week of care, pleasure and joy. 
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SELECTED RECIPES. 
a cabbage into quarters and soak it in strong 
salt and water for an hour or more, then 
boil in the usual way and squeezo in a _ 
colander until perfectly dry ; then chop very ’ 
fine, season with butter, pepper and salt to I 
taste. Press the whole very closely into an 
earthen bowl, and bake one hour in a slow 
oven. When done turn it out, and serve , 
with vinegar and pepper. t 
Cheese Fritter*.— Slice thin half a dozen t 
large, tart apples, and prepare half as many | 
thin slices of nice cheese. Beat up one or . 
two eggs, according to the quantity required, • 
and season high with salty mustard and a I 
little pepper, bay the slices of cheese to 
soak for a few moments in the mixture, 
then put each slice between two slices of 
apples, sandwich style, and dip the whole 
into the beaten egg, then fry in hot butter 
like oysters, and servo very hot. These 
fritters are an addition to any breakfast 
table. 
Cheese Toast.— Grate a teacupful of cheese 
of a mild flavor. Take half a pint of milk 
and boil it on the stove ; beat to a froth foui- 
eggs, season the milk with salt, and turn the 
grated chucsc into it. Let it come to a boil, 
then add the beaten eggs and a small bit of 
butter. Have some thill slices of bread 
toasted hot, and spread each slice with a 
thick layer or melted choose and egg. Serve 
like cream toast. This makes a fine relish 
for either supper or breakfast. 
To Stuff a Ham.— Parboil and place the 
ham on a tray ; make incisions over it with 
a sharp knife some two or three inches deep, 
and stuff these with a dressing made of 
crackers cooked to a brown crisp and 
crumbled fine, add salt, pepper, egg, butter 
I parsley and onion chopped fine, then bake it 
brown in a moderate heat and serve when 
cold. 
Hye Biscuit .—Make a (lough with one 
pint of milk, Hour and yeast, and one tnble- 
spoonful of melted butter, and three table- 
spooufuls of sugar. Stir as stiff as a spoon 
can make it with the flour. Rise it over 
night and drop it into “gem pans” orbiseuit 
tins the uext morning. Bake for half an 
hour in a hot oven. 
( Cookies. —Three cups sugar, one cup hnt- 
l ter, one cup sour cream, three eggs. Another 
—One and a half cups sugar, one cup sour 
. cream, one cup butter, ono egg. 
Jelly Cake— Ono cup sugar, one of flour, 
• three tablespoons butter, three tablespoons 
J sweet milk, three eggs beaten separately, 
> cream tartar and soda. 
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PROPAGATING DISEASE IN TREES AND 
VINES. : 
HSfiiW JnformEtifln. 
REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM. 
One pint of Rum; one pint of Now 
Orleans Molasses; one-quarter pound of 
sulphur. Mix and shake well. Take a 
tahlespoouful three times a day. A lady 
who had suffered a great deal from in¬ 
flammatory rheumatism told me that the 
above recipe was the first of many remedies 
which she had tried that helped her.— Fart¬ 
er’ s Wife. 
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HYGIENIC NOTES. 
Apples in Imitation of Ginger. —To three 
pounds of very hard apples bake two pounds 
of loaf sugar, and a quarter of a pound of 
best white glr.ger. But these in layers (hav¬ 
ing first sliced the apples in eight pieces and 
cored them) alternately in a wide-mouthed 
jar. Next day infuse an ounce of white 
ginger, well bruised, in about a pint of boil¬ 
ing water ; let it stand till the next day. 
Then put in the apples that have been two 
days in the ginger. Simmer slowly until the 
apples look clear. Take great care not to 
break the pieces. 
Cabboge Jelly— This is a very appetizing 
dish, and by some persona considered more 
wholesome than cabbage plainly boiled. Cut 
A Simple Method of Ventilation.—Apiece 
of wood, three inches high and exactly as 
long as the breadth of the window, is to be 
prepared. Let the sash be now raised, the 
slip of wood placed on the sill, and the sash 
drawn closwly upon it. If the slip has been 
well fitted, there will be no draft in con¬ 
sequence of the displacement of the sash 
at its lower part, but the top of the lower 
sash will overlap the bottom of the upper 
one, and between the bars perpendicular 
currents of air, not felt, will enter and leave i 
the room. 
Best- Position for Sleeping. —Is it well when 
tying down to have the head even with the 
body ? 
Ans. —The body should not be confined to 
[ one position iu sleep, more than when 
awake. Variety i ; essential; still, generally, 
it is best to sleep principally on the side, 
varying it to partially on the face and 
occasionally on the back. The head should 
be even with the body. If sleeping on the 
side, a thin pillow will be necessary to bring 
the bead ou a line with the body.— Herald 
of Health. 
Removing Warts.—Dr. Guttceit recom- 
1 mends rubbing warts, night and morning, 
with a moistened piece of muriate of 
ummouia. They soften and dwindle away, 
. leaving no such white mark as follows their 
5 dispersion with lunar caustic. 
The article of J. B. Jones in the Rural 
New-Yorker of Deo. 12, touches on this wj 
topic, and correctly arrives at the conclusion 
that propagation from green wood does not w 
produce weakness or disease in the vine. ^ 
Propagating by cuttings or grafts of diseased 
vines or trees, however, would be very likely 
to transmit the disease or debility of the 
vine or tree from which the cions or cuttings ^ 
were taken. _ .— Cll 
4 have tried grafting from a decaying old . 
apple t ree whose fruit I wished to perpetu- ^ 
ate. The sickly roots of the old trunk threw tj 
up suckers large enough and apparently b| 
vigorous enough for cions ; but they were ,j, 
defective at the pith, the color being changed. u 
I set the cions, and they grew a sickly growth _ 
and produced a dwarfed fruit true to flavor, - 
but the wood, like the graft set, was defect- 1 
ive at th© pith, aud the limb showed increas- ^ 
ing signs of disease from year to year till it _ 
died on a healthy tree. 
Grape vines me hardy or tender as they 
start from the seed, differing sometimes un¬ 
accountably aud sometimes following the 
health or weakness of their parents. As a 
rule, foreign grapes aro not adapted to our 
climate, and none that 1 know of has ever | 
become acclimated. All aro liable to winter¬ 
kill or blight, or both. To nearly the same 1 
degree this weakness is transmitted to all 1 
hybrids. From natives only, all our desirable 1 
hardy and healthy vines have sprung as \ 
seedlings. 
Then, our native vines, if they become 
weakened and diseased, owe their demoral¬ 
ization to bad treatment. Our Isabella, for ' 
instance, has been a martyr. At the stake 
it is Shortened ; and its roots die in propor¬ 
tion as its growth is dwarfed. On the trellis 
the “renewal system” is also death to its 
vigorous roots. Iu either position, the 
; “slaughter” of summer pruning on the 
foreign or “ European plan,” keeps up this 
check and disturbance of the roots till 
autumn relieves what is left of them by a 
- succeeding winter’s rest. This “system” 
- has been so universally and uniformly 
followed throughout the laud, and succeeded 
b 3 r new vines raised from diseased (hot 
’ green) cuttings or layers, that the whole 
* stock is demoralized, and the hardy and 
’ healthy old Isabella now is succeeded by 
vines uniformly liable to blight and wintcr- 
- kill and die out in a few yeurs of premature 
old age. ■— 
♦ & Yet, as 1 showed you in relating my grape 
experiments a month or two ago, the seed 
- 0 f the old Isabella is healthy as ever; and 
my Eureka is nob the only seedling from this 
old favorite that has made a goodly report, 
.v An old Shaker at New Lebanon in this State 
who claims to have originated the Northern 
a Muscadine, claims to have an Isabella soed- 
ly png which he has just originated, that, with 
n- other merits, l-egains the hardiness and 
ie healthfulness of vine which the parent had 
es lost and surpasses in earliness and flavor of 
Y- fruit. Ho has also a promising Delaware 
seedling. A Syracuse grape grower has 
recently announced a valuable Isabella seed¬ 
ling. Does not this, added to the success I 
met In I hose Eureka seedlings before reported 
ce to you, look as if progress in getting better 
as grapes lies in breeding up from pure seed 
be lings ? Folsom. 
,fie Eureka Place, Attica N. Y. 
guano, sulphate of ammonia, and other 
nitrogenous manures, which will fortify the 
plant and enable it to bear fruit, while 
more or less rendering the soil repulsive to 
the insect. Strengthen the plant to fight it 
out with the Phylloxera. No danger need 
be apprehended of the manure affecting the 
flavor of the grapes, or the bouquet of the 
wine; for the manures must be applied at 
the beginning of winter, and thus the soil 
will have ample time to act oil the manure 
and to destroy its odor. 
M. de Silva Luz of Lisbon, has succeeded 
in raising young vine plants from the seeds 
of the grape; he sowed in May, a quart of 
the seeds, in a well prepared bed of rich 
earth, mixed with wood-ashes, watering the 
plat twice a day ; in the course of a week 
they appeared above ground, when ho con¬ 
tinued watering, the weather being hot, 
breaking the crust of the soil very carefully. 
To-day he has a border-tuft of young vines 
lis inches high, he intends to plant out. 
JukiuraniT bVeprtnmit. 
INSURANCE NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE FRENCH VINE CONGRESS—PHYL 
LOXERA. 
The Paris correspondent of the California 
Farmer thus tells the results of recent Wine 
Congress at Montpelier : — The long expected 
Vine Congress has been held at Montpelier, 
in which the past and present state ol’ vine¬ 
yards has been profoundly examined in pre- 
sence of practical and seienttlc men, includ- 
ingrepresentatives from foreign vine growing 
countries. The Phylloxera disease was ex- ■ 
hauatively discussed, as well as the multitude 
of curative processes. The results of the 
Congress are these : The vine is not diseased, 
it suffers from the attacks of a bug; the 
only known means to kill it so far effcctu 
ally, is the Faneon process of flooding the 
vineyards for about two months at the dose 
of autumn, and to afterwards apply stimu¬ 
lating manures ; that the disease has pro¬ 
gressed owing to the supineness of cultivators, 
or a want of confidence in the possibility of 
mitigating the evil when once it appeared ; 
that attention should he concentrated to 
make the vine live despite the insect, and 
which can be largely ensured by mixing sul- 
phurot of potassium with the liquid manure, 
Inviolability of Insurance Deposits.—A. 
case involving (he inviolability of insurance 
deposits has come before the Court of Ap¬ 
peals of this State for adjudication. The 
Court held that the Superintendent held the 
deposit as a trust iunl for the security of 
policy holders, and that not even the courts 
could assume to hand over any portion of , 
them to receivers for the benefit of the com¬ 
pany’s general creditors. This is especially 
comforting to the policy holders of the late 
lamented Guardian and the North Ameri¬ 
can. Some of them decline to accept the 
terms of reinsurance offered them by the 
Universal. Instead of abject submission 
they have the alternative of drawing out 
their share and reinsuring elsewhere by the 
assistance -and permission of the Superin¬ 
tendent. 
The A me.rican National Life “ Stilt Lives.” 
—The Connecticut Insurance Commissioner 
has been trying, since last September, to 
break up the American National Life In¬ 
surance Company of New Haven, and is 
further from success than when he began. 
Mr. Noyes, the indefatigable President, has 
shown light and pluck in defense of his 
policy holders, and has our best wishes for 
success. Notwithstanding all the fuss that 
has been made, and the withdrawal of the 
company’s agencies, the old policy holders 
still send in the premiums and still insist on 
•remitting their money direct to “ Ben. 
Noyes” in person. They probably know 
best whom to trust. 
Evolution among Life. Insurance Com¬ 
panies.—lb becomes apparent, as the re- 
! ports of life insurance business for 1874 coma 
1 in, that a sort of evolution, after the Darwin 
' order, is taking place among the companies. 
1 The old and prosperous companies are doing I 
* a large business at small expense, while the 
1 weaker are losing ground. This Is perhaps 
1 one of the reasons why many of them are 
a reluctant to produce their annual state- 
3 ments. Others, notably tho Continental and 
Globe, publish only their assets and liabili- 
i ties, omitting to account for their receipts 
* and expenditures. 
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1 The Olohe Life Insurance Company is 
about establishing a branch office in London, 
Ambitious and aspiring, isn’t it ? The North 
America sent the same sort of coals to New 
L_ Castle, but didn’t sell any. Perhaps they 
had best send their most, gifted emissary to 
try his hand at insuring Winston, McCurdy, 
la Grover, Hyde, Franklin and Batterson. 
aa An English wit said of a certain man that 
ef “ the more he thought about him the less he 
11 ' thought of him.” The average Briton 
1C " knows all about the Globe. 
ld . I Losses by Fire in N. Y. City. —The ag¬ 
ue, gregate losses by fire in New York city have 
^ been growing smaller for several years, 
de | being in 1872, *4,2fJS,400 ; in 1S73, $2,648,800 ; 
| lC , and last year only $1,328,800, This is proba- 
| bly due to the greater vigilance aud effi- 
l,u deucy of the fire department. '1 here is no 
tu such thing as luck iu tho. occurrence of 
Lbe fires. They are preventable up to the point 
ot:c of non-occurrence. 
uu- State Insurance. Departments.— They had 
iro- an Insurance Department out in Kansas. It 
>rs, was worse than useless, and they abolished 
* of it. Something of this sort of depuration is 
ed ; on foot in the State of Maine. Now that the 
to Legislature of this State is in session, would 
and it not be handy to set the other States a 
sul- good example by abolishing what is called 
ire, the New York Insurance Department 1 
